Title: Wikispaces Description: A wiki is a special type of interactive webpage. Instead of having one individual posting content to a page, wikis allow multiple users to post content, create pages, and edit the material in a collaborative fashion. Wikispaces.com is just website site that offers free wiki services K-12 educators. With a free Wikispaces for Educators account, teachers can create classroom pages and student accounts. Wikispaces offers an easy to use interface which allows users the ability to focus on making a dynamic web page without the need of advanced technology skills.
To create a Wikispaces for Educators account, click here.
Title: PBworks (PBwiki) Description: A good alternative to Wikispaces. The site allows you to create free wikis for education. Web Address:http://pbworks.com/
Presentations
Title: Slideshare Description: Create PowerPoint style presentations and share them with your students. Web Address:http://www.slideshare.net/
Online Calulators
Title: Instacalc Description: Use it as an online calculator or to create quick and easy online charts. Web Address:http://instacalc.com/
Blogging
Title: Edublogs Description: Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts Web Address:http://edublogs.org/
Multimedia Resources
Title: TeacherTube Description: TeacherTube is a video hosting service dedicated to education. Videos, audio, and images are searchable by topic and grade level. The site also includes a teacher resources section. Web Address:http://www.teachertube.com/
Title: Hippocampus Description: "HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge." - hippocampus.org Web Address:http://www.hippocampus.org/
Title: Brightstorm Description: This site boasts having 2000+ math videos covering everything from Algebra to Calculus. Web Address:http://www.brightstorm.com/math
Title: Math TV Description: Math Podcasts, Videos, and Turotials Web Address:http://www.mathtv.com/
Word Clouds
Title: Tagxego Description: Taxego is very similar to Wordle, except it allows you to take it a step further and have the word cloud form a specific shape. It also allows you to save images as a jpeg. Web Address: http://www.tagxedo.com/
Title: Wordle Description: Create Beautiful Word Clouds Web Address:http://www.wordle.net/
Educational Math Games
Title: Cool Math Description: This site includes videos, games, puzzles, interactive web pages, and math resources. Web Address:http://www.coolmath.com/
Other Fantastic Web 2.0 Resources
Title: EduTecher Description: This site contains links to a wide variety of Web 2.0 resources for teachers. Web Address: http://www.edutecher.net/
Additional Links
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Online Collaboration
Title: Wikispaces
Description: A wiki is a special type of interactive webpage. Instead of having one individual posting content to a page, wikis allow multiple users to post content, create pages, and edit the material in a collaborative fashion. Wikispaces.com is just website site that offers free wiki services K-12 educators. With a free Wikispaces for Educators account, teachers can create classroom pages and student accounts. Wikispaces offers an easy to use interface which allows users the ability to focus on making a dynamic web page without the need of advanced technology skills.
- To create a Wikispaces for Educators account, click here.
- To view Wikispaces' online tutorial, click here.
Web Address: http://www.wikispaces.comTitle: PBworks (PBwiki)
Description: A good alternative to Wikispaces. The site allows you to create free wikis for education.
Web Address: http://pbworks.com/
Presentations
Title: SlideshareDescription: Create PowerPoint style presentations and share them with your students.
Web Address: http://www.slideshare.net/
Online Calulators
Title: InstacalcDescription: Use it as an online calculator or to create quick and easy online charts.
Web Address: http://instacalc.com/
Blogging
Title: EdublogsDescription: Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts
Web Address: http://edublogs.org/
Multimedia Resources
Title: TeacherTubeDescription: TeacherTube is a video hosting service dedicated to education. Videos, audio, and images are searchable by topic and grade level. The site also includes a teacher resources section.
Web Address: http://www.teachertube.com/
Title: Hippocampus
Description: "HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge." - hippocampus.org
Web Address: http://www.hippocampus.org/
Title: Brightstorm
Description: This site boasts having 2000+ math videos covering everything from Algebra to Calculus.
Web Address: http://www.brightstorm.com/math
Title: Math TV
Description: Math Podcasts, Videos, and Turotials
Web Address: http://www.mathtv.com/
Word Clouds
Title: TagxegoDescription: Taxego is very similar to Wordle, except it allows you to take it a step further and have the word cloud form a specific shape. It also allows you to save images as a jpeg.
Web Address: http://www.tagxedo.com/
Title: Wordle
Description: Create Beautiful Word Clouds
Web Address: http://www.wordle.net/
Educational Math Games
Title: Cool MathDescription: This site includes videos, games, puzzles, interactive web pages, and math resources.
Web Address: http://www.coolmath.com/
Other Fantastic Web 2.0 Resources
Title: EduTecherDescription: This site contains links to a wide variety of Web 2.0 resources for teachers.
Web Address: http://www.edutecher.net/
Title: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
Description: This website has a wide variety of educational resources including links to many Web 2.0 applications.
Web Address: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edtools.html
Title: Go2Web20
Description: This site provides many examples of Web 2.0 applications in a searchable fashion.
Web Address: http://www.go2web20.net/